His daughter Keren Domino White told CNN she had seen her father being helped off a rooftop in a newspaper photograph taken on Monday.

But Ms White said she had not been able to contact her father since then.

The 77-year-old singer of Blueberry Hill had been reported missing since the storm hit New Orleans, flooding the city and leaving thousands feared dead.

More than one million people were evacuated from New Orleans and the surrounding areas before the hurricane struck, but Mayor Ray Nagin has estimated that up to 100,000 people decided to stay in the city.

In a photograph in the city newspaper, the New Orleans' Times-Picayune, a man resembling Domino can be seen climbing off a rescue boat.

The musician's agent Al Embry had earlier said that nobody had seen Domino since he told people he was planning to "ride out" the storm at his low-lying home.